The first woman GM, born and raised in Hungary, was instrumental in getting the maverick genius to live in Budapest for eight ...

Magnus Carlsen’s nine-game winning streak at the Grenke Chess Freestyle Open 2025 is being compared to the great Bobby ...

Maghsoodloo finished in second place by Buchholz tiebreaks, ahead of six other players also on seven points. Since Carlsen ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow.

The following conversation between Bobby Fischer and radio host Pablo Mercado was broadcast September 11, 2001 on the Philippine radio station Bombo Radyo. In 1972, Fischer became the first American… ...

At a time before his country became a chess powerhouse, he defeated four world champions, including Bobby Fischer and another ...

Courtesy of wikimedia commons There’s a new sort of chess. It’s flashy, it’s exciting. It’s called Freestyle Chess, or ...

A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary ...